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STATE TROOPS CALLED OUT

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Two Hundred and Fifty Angry Men Gather to Lynch

Ian for Slashing Officers Throat

ATLANTA Ga Aug 225oclock Sunday morning Frank Bansister tor whose death a mob hadbeen clamoring for hours at Mariettaarrived In Atlanta In the charge of anescort of militia the trip from Ma-

rietta being made In the big touringcar of M L McNoal

The party bad a most exciting ex-

perience In getting away from Mar-ietta The mob had posted sentinelsall over town and when these senti-nels learned the prisoner had beenslipped away from the jail out of

door they notified the crowdAs hundreds of men came rushing

to the two cars the chauffeur of oneit Js said became panicstricken anddeserted The negro was transferredto the other car and both dashed outof the city to the tune of a dozen ormore bullets fired from the mob

In the party arriving In Atlantawere Captain Fred Morris command-ing Company F Sergeant AttawayCorporal W C Dobbs and Constables11 A Morris and W A Bishop Theauto took a roundabout route to AtJantn the trip covering over thirtythree miles

MARIETTA Ga Augwere ordered out hero Saturday nightto prevent a mob of two hundred andfifty men from storming the jail andlynching Frank Bannister a negrowho slashed Will Cooper a youngwhite man with a razor while hewas aiding Officer White In arresting

L negro woman who had been fight

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appearance on the scene a riot undoubtedly would have been precipi-tated

Cooper is expected to die at anymoment

At this hour 2 SO oclock In themorning everything has quieted

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Scene of Big Steel Strike

Bloody Battle Raged at

PITTSBUHG Pa Aug 23 OneState trooper and one deputy sheriffand three foreigners were stint andkilled Sunday night In n wild riot atthe Pressed Steel Car plant In Schoen-vllle whose employes are now on

strike At least a score of personswere seriously wounded ten fatally

The riot followed u day of quiet andbroke without warning

The dead John U Wilson Statetrooper Harry Bxlei deputy sheriffthree foreigners

The fatally Injured are John C

Smith and Lucellan Jones Statetroopers and seven foreigners

George Kltch mid lulus ODonnellState troopers were seriously Injur-

ed and was shot In theneck Over a score of persons re-

ceived more or less serious Injuries

Women Wild Wliii RageThe riot scene was Indescribable

Mountod State troopers galloped Indis-

criminately through the streets withriot maces drawn cracking the headsof all persons loitering in the vicinity-

of the mill Deputy therlfU andtroopers broke tn thu doors of housessuspected of the rotn nt ofstrikers and wholesale arrests weremade

From 930 until 11110 oclock scoresof persons were arrested and placedIn box car Jails In the mill yards

During the early stages of the riot-

ing women were armed others ef-

tfecUvtly used clubs and stones TherewoDxvi all foreigners Insane withrage were mainly for In

citing the men to extreme measures-At midnight quiet reigned In thedistrict

Shortly before 930 oclock Sundaynight a mob gathered about theSrhoenvllle entrance to the PressedSteel Car Works and made a con-

certed attack upon the big swingingof the stockade The attack

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though the troops are still on guard

Asked to Help Officer

About 830 oclock Officer Whitewhile attempting to arrest a negresson Cherry street asked Cooper toaid him The young man came upImmediately and seized the womanJust as he placed his bands on herFiannlbter who rushed up from be-

hind pulled a razor out of his pocketand slashed Cooper from the left sideof the mouth around to the right earsevering the veins In the bacK of theneck

The young man turned instantlygrabbed the gffleers revolver runnlug after the negro who was at-

tempting to make an escape As hegave chase Cooper tired five shots atthe negro finally dropping to theground in front of the office of DrC P Nolan lie did not hit Bannister

Negro IB Captured

The negro continued to run downthe street out of city Severalmen and deputy sheriffs who hap-pened to be witnesses to the affairgave chase Floyd Northcutt whowas coming Into the city on Kennesawavenue hearing the shouts of his pursuers caught Bannister placed hlnIn n cab and hurried to town Reach-Ing here Deputy Sheriff McKinneyand the deputies took charge of time

prisoner and with quick work rushedthrough the mob that hud gathered-by this time to the jail and safelylanded him behind the bars

Will Cooper is the son of the lateJohn Cooper of this place and cometfrom a prominent South Carolina faru-

lly He Is employed as a chauffeur In

a local automobile garage Dr No-

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In the melee Harry Evler a deputjsheriff aged 50 years was shot stdInstantly killed by It bullet fred I

Is said by a strike sympathizerTrooper Is Slain

In an effort to arrest the man picled out of road a the oneold the shooting State Trooper Southwas Instantly killed by a revolver hullet

For the first time slice the Incep-

tion of the strike the State trooperthen opened volley fire on the mobSix strikers fell at the first roundThroe of then are reported fatull-

siotThe members or the mob then

opened fire with rifles Two mountedtroopers dropped from their hornfatally shot They were taken to tinOhio Valley Hospital In a dying conditlon As an timbulniirv madeway from the car plant to the bott i

tnl carrying wounded troupers the t

hide was attacked and the drlurforced to lice fur his life The frightt nd tenet of horses inched to tinambulance plunged wildly in antiabout the crowd Two men wentrampled under the horuM hoofs Tinambulance was finally driven to tinhospital by a detachment of troopers

Kick Dead ManShortly afterward a deputy sheriff

not yet Identified was surrounded by

a crowd of strikers In a last desper-

ate attempt to save himself the offlcer drew his revolver nnd emptied titcontents Into the crowd Then

the gun away he yelled-I give up I am all In

The next moment five bullets wonfired Into his body Not satisfied eventhen the crowd beat and kicked thebody until the features were unrecog-

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BRONSON NEGRO KILLED

FOR ASSAULT UPON LADY-

Mrs Snowden Highly Respected lady Had Narrow

Escape From Black Fiend Tuesday

Steve Brown a young negro wasshot and killed Tuesday morning atBronson by Hart Falrclotb u youngwhite man for an assault and attempt-

ed rape upon a Mrs Snowden a high-

ly respected lady of that placeThe lady was engaged In working-

at her garden In the northwesternpart of the town fully a distance offive blocks from the business centerwhen the negro apiwared in the garden lie came up behind her andmade the assault

Her screams at once attracted MrFaircloth who was within a shortdistance and he thinking It was ahawk after her chickens ran overto the place with his gun only tofind that it was a negro who had at-

tempted a heinous crimeMrs Snowden was badly

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CAI1TERSVILLK Ga AugWith the placing In Jail here Satur-day of William Golden a white man52 years of age on the charge ofcriminal assault Bartow county jailnow houses four men accused of thisheinous crime and but one of these-Is a negro Not before In the his-

tory of the State has such a conditionexisted and an attempt at wholesalelynching would not be surprising Ex-

raordlnary precautions howeverhave been taken by the officers to pro-

tect the prisoners and the sheriffto have the situation well In

handGolden Is charged with criminally

vaulting Miss Annie Gentry afeebleminded young white womannear Taylorvllle on July 22 Goldenllsappeared shortly after the commis-sion of the crime and was not seenagain Saturday i Iht when hewas arn and hurrtrd to the Ill

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It Is the general belief along tiltvnter front that these bones are the

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currence as quickly as possible and

he succeeded In stopping the brutebefore he had gotten out of the field

and In the hammock which he was

making for at that time When thenegro refused to stop at Falrclothsc-

ommnnds he raised his gun and firedbut as time shot were small It tookthree loads to stop him

Following the occurrence Mr Faircloth went up town and informed theoncers of the occurrence and also

1 number of citizens who found therase as he had represented It and anInquest was ordered held which com-

pletely exonerated him of blame for

the shootingBrown had been living at Broiipon

for several years and was alwaysthought to be reliable and all rightuntil the occurrence on Tuesdaywhlrb resulted In his death

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i here TIll details of the crime atold by Mss Gentry and corroboratedIn part by her sister are revolting In

the extreme It Is not doubted thatGolden would have been lynched hadbe remained In the vicinity of tincrime great Indignation having beetaroused by the girls story ThereIs still much excitement on accountof the

Taylorvllle was also the seemsof the more recent assault uponKlrod for which John K nnd J W

white are being heldIn tit Jail here tIll authorities arcapprehensive lest n mob of

numbers be organized In thatsection with n view to storming tit

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Howard Stokeley a negro Is thefourth man held on this seriouscharge He Is charged with assaultinga negro girl

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A school of sharks were followingtli Mhouner at the time and the mallllMiMnrrd from sight as soon as be-

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UP FOR SELLING BOOZE

MAYOR DAVIS FINED HIM 25

AND COSTS OF COURT

Marshal Arnow Was EyeWitness to

the Whole Transaction Sat

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From Tuesdays Dally SunMarshal Arnow was busy In the

tiger line Saturday night with theresult that he succeeded in arrestingJonas Malphurs for disusing ofwhiskey In n diy town and tonnty

Before Mayor Davis Monday Maphurs was sentenced to pay a tineof 21 and costs The Marshal hadsuspected that a deal was to be madeas he had noticed Malphurs and anoth-er party together hence he was lay-

ing in wait nnd watching the entiretransaction saw whereit carne from and also the moneychanged-

G M Edfield was let off with thepayment of costs for riding a bicycleon the sidewalk as was also John DeBose upon u similar charge-

S James drunk was let off withthe payment of costs and toll to goand sin no more which he promised-to do

Disagreeable at HomeLots of men and women who are

agreeable with others get cranky-at hums Its not disposition theliver If you llnd In yourself thatyou feel crows around the house littlethings worry you Just buy a bottleof Italian lierbine nod put your liv-

er in shape You and everybodyaround you will feel better for ItPrice 0 cents per bottle Sold by

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The work on the public building inFernandlna Is progressing shadilyand by the first of next week theconcrete for the foundation will belaid mid the work of laying th brickand stout will be begun

People with chronic bronchitis asth-ma Bud lung trouble will find greatrelief and comfort In Foleys Honeyand Tar and can avoid suffering bycommencing to take it nr once J WM Collurn Co

The tender by Dr Ennls of a build-Ing maul grounds at Nacroosee fur theestablishment of a sanitarium for thetreatment of tuberculosis has inaccepted by the Slate authoritySanford Herald

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